[–] 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It's not that they were doing it, although the affair angle with a spy will get press.

It's more that he was working with her to smuggle GPU units to China, in flagrant violation of export controls.

Estimates are that 20% of corporate revenue was from smuggling.

Bonus: With his influence in the Trump administration, Nvidia worked to quash investigations into doing exactly that.

See more here: https://www.wheresyoured.at/jensens-bizarre-adventure/

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    I also dearly love a keyboard phone. The last one I bought was a Uniherz Titan Pocket during covid. It was good, but the sucky part is they don't really support their phones well. Also, they're a GPL violator so the community can't develop a fully libre rom.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    I think there's just not enough information to say with confidence one way or the other. Biden commissioned a report that was inconclusive, in part because of non-cooperation from the Chinese government. From Wikipedia:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assessment_on_COVID-19_Origins

    Updated Assessment on COVID-19 Origins is a report of the United States Intelligence Community regarding the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which was commissioned on May 26, 2021, by President Joe Biden and submitted on August 24.[1]

    Biden initially ordered his intelligence services to "redouble efforts" to investigate the virus's origin.[2] The report, which was released on August 27, noted that the Intelligence Community did not reach a unanimous conclusion on the origin of the virus, with four agencies determining that the index case was likely a result of natural exposure, with another agency considering it as the result of a laboratory incident, although the community overall agreed that it was not linked to biological warfare. The community concluded that a conclusive investigation would require cooperation with the Chinese government.[1][3] Analysts considered that the investigation proved incapable of reaching a definitive conclusion on the origins of COVID-19, and the report was criticized by Chinese officials.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Net movement is zero. But there is equal and opposite force (gravity and your arms) making net force zero. The force exerted by your arms is what makes you tired.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    I don't think it's possible. Rock Auto doesn't list the country of manufacture. I'm pretty sure it's because very often the exact same item (part, brand, and serial number) is made in different factories in different countries. I've ordered the exact same thing and sometimes it says made in China, other times Mexico for example. I'm pretty sure this is true regardless of which retailer you order from, so unless you are physically looking at the item before you buy it, you probably won't be able to know. And these days, even going to my local parts store, they will most of the time need to order parts in from elsewhere.

    If you're asking if there's a Canadian alternative to Rockauto, I'd also love to know.

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